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The Middle East: US Moves Out, China Moves in?
Ahead of Vali Nasr's June 17 discussion on the U.S. and China in the Middle East, what are the signs that China will step in to fill the void left by U.S. reluctance to engage further in the region?
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Japan and Australia: Toward a Creative Partnership
Japan's Prime Minister foresees increased opportunities for collaboration.
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Japan and Australia: Toward a Creative Partnership
Japan's Prime Minister foresees increased opportunities for collaboration.
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Enhanced Mutual Understanding and Trust towards a Conservative and Cooperative Relationship between China and the United States
Speech by His Excellency Hu Jintao, Vice President of the People's Republic of China.
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Washington and the "War against Terror": Gaining Ground or Losing Momentum?
Walden Bello argues that with the war on terror, the US is caught in a relentlessly expanding conflict from which there is no easy withdrawal.
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Lecture Series on Roots of Sectarian Conflict
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Lecture Series on Roots of Sectarian Conflict
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China-US Relations--A Generational View
Remarks by Ambassador Nicholas Platt, President of the Asia Society.
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China-US Relations--A Generational View
Remarks by Ambassador Nicholas Platt, President of the Asia Society.
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Rebuilding Afghanistan
Barnett Rubin and Ashraf Ghani explore the difficulties the U.S. is likely to encounter in building a stable Afghanistan.
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Barnett Rubin on the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the Rise of the Taliban
Rubin discusses the conditions under which the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and the long-term implications of the proxy war there.
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